Bought melamine set because it doesnt rattle as much - expensive and the mugs are hard to keep free of tea stains. We now drink from the 'Pudsey' mugs I got free 20 years ago from a Shell petrol promotion.

I agree with Graham on this one. Pot mugs but melamine plates. What I really hate is Sandy's football mug (actually in the shape of a big fat football). It just takes up lots of space and is not user friendly. Even he doesn't use it but he won't let me throw it away. Sadly, it might have to meet with an accident shortly. :Laughing:

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If you havent got a lot of payload surely using melamine makes sense, sure if you have plenty of payload, yes but with all the stuff we carry for fulltiming even that bit of saving on payload makes sense?
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Getting back to the original question : Corelle is not a form of melamine, it's ovenproof glass. I'd also be interested in knowing if anyone has actual experience of using it. I like the fact that it claims to be ovenproof but according to Wikipedia there are safety issues: Sudden temperature changes and other damages have been shown to cause serious structural harm, raising the risk of shattering at a later time.:Eek!:

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Getting back to the original question : Corelle is not a form of melamine, it's ovenproof glass. I'd also be interested in knowing if anyone has actual experience of using it. I like the fact that it claims to be ovenproof but according to Wikipedia there are safety issues: Sudden temperature changes and other damages have been shown to cause serious structural harm, raising the risk of shattering at a later time.:Eek!:

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Thanks Maz. That's what I was asking

We originally bought melamine for lightness, lack of fragility and lack of rattle. We found we didn't like the melamine cups so now use pot ones but have no problems with melamine bowls/plates.

Being so much poorer than residents of North Wales and Cheshire we can't afford finest bone china :Wink:

We have gone for china plates/bowls etc from Tesco. They are square and so fit neatly in lockers without waste space. If we break one (haven't yet) they are easy to replace.

Real glasses are much nicer than plastic, and are cheaper as well, so if one is broken its not a bad deal. Glass beer mugs can be put in the fridge when its hot and have you ever seen a plastic brandy or port glass.

We always used Melamine and being full time we found we had to change it about every 2 years or so as it started to scratch up - bought Correlle earlier in the year and are really chuffed with it looks like melamine - feels like china , weighs just a little more than melamine. Travels very well looks good and well worth the money from our point of view.

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We bought from http://www.worldkitchen.co.uk/ and found the service and description excellent - we originally had a link come via the caravan club and used that to get a 20% discount - we have been really pleased with the product

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